Eat@home Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eat@home

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The starting point of this project is to respond to a societal issue. Indeed, the demographic ageing of the European Union is a trend that has been observed in Europe for decades. At the same time, healthy life expectancy is low (64.2 years for women and 63.5 years for men). The objective of our project is therefore to respond to this societal challenge, with two target audiences: senior citizens over 60 years of age and their close (non-professional) caregivers. With this in mind, our project includes 4 intellectual outputs: a framework of knowledge and skills in terms of healthy and enjoyable food for seniors, a recipe book for seniors, a training manual for their caregivers and an advocacy of seniors’ healthy and enjoyable food.

This transnational Strategic Partnership project involves 5 organisations from 3 Member States (France, Belgium and Portugal) including field organisations, a national federation of associations and a European think & do tank. Project of the association GROUPE SOS Seniors, Silver Fourchette (France) is the candidate organisation. Silver Fourchette is committed to field actions and goes to meet seniors and those who accompany them to propose concrete, educational and positive actions around eating well, and give them the keys to act on health. UNA 47 (France) : A non-profit association is a national federation of 30 associations providing home care and services. Bras dessus Bras dessous (Belgium) : A field organisation specialised in happy ageing at home, Bras dessus Bras dessous fights against the loneliness of isolated elderly people by relying on the solidarity of the neighbourhood. Pour La Solidarité (Belgium) : As a recognised European think & do tank, social inclusion issues have always been at the heart of Pour La Solidarité’s priorities. Thanks to an interdisciplinary team, Pour La Solidarité is an expert in the field of home care services as well as food. Obra Diocesana de Promoção Social (Portugal) : A private social solidarity institution based in Porto, the Obra Diocesana de Promoção Social offers various forms of social action to its beneficiaries (day centre, home care services for the elderly, etc.).

Each of the partners will bring their know-how to the intellectual outputs and to each stage of the project. The framework will make it possible to gather the knowledge and skills needed by (non-professional) caregivers in terms of nutrition for European seniors. It will include a comparative analysis of the 3 partner countries. The recipe book will give European seniors access to concrete and practical advice enabling them to play an active role in their own health thanks to specific recipes for seniors over 60 years of age. It will be accessible to all budgets and will highlight the principles of sustainable food. The training manual will help caregivers to understand the specifics of nutrition for seniors. Finally, through our advocacy we will promote a “healthy and enjoyable” diet for seniors and will help change the way we look at old age and enhance the role of (non-professional) caregivers.

In order to achieve these objectives, we have thought of a chronology so that the intellectual outputs are enriched and respond to each other, which will ensure the coherence of the whole. The productions will be guided and validated by our experts in each field but also tested by panels in the 3 European countries, which will allow feedback from the field and ensure the quality and practical usefulness of our deliverables.

Impacts are expected at local, regional, national, European and international levels. Both on the participating organisations (knowledge on healthy and enjoyable food for seniors, caregivers’ needs, new tools to enhance the quality of their support, etc.), on non-professional caregivers (data on caregivers in Europe and their role, taking into account their needs in terms of support for seniors, etc.) but also on seniors (needs and desires in terms of food, the impact of food on the environment, etc.). Our partners will have the opportunity to use the tools created during the project to strengthen their knowledge of healthy and enjoyable eating for seniors and the needs of non-professional caregivers and to disseminate these tools to their beneficiaries.

The partners will ensure, after European funding, a wide dissemination of the project, both internally and externally. Exchanges will be maintained between the different partners in order to evaluate together the means to be implemented to think together about a new project in the continuity of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257303 Eur

Project Coordinator

Groupe SOS Seniors & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Bras dessus Bras dessous
• UNA 47
• OBRA DIOCESANA DE PROMOÇÃO SOCIAL
• POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL